Poetry Is Quotes - Page 22

• Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

  George Santayana

  Echoes, Vision, Arms

  George Santayana (1970). “Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe”, p.131, Library of Alexandria

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• Engineering, like poetry, is an attempt to approach perfection. And engineers, like poets, are seldom completely satisfied with their creations. They notice, even if no one else does, the world that is not quite le mot juste, or the hairline crack that blemishes the structure.

  Henry Petroski

  Engineering, Perfection, Doe

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• Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.

  Thomas Nashe

  Flower, Angel, Phrases

  1592 Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to the Devil, 'An Invective Against Enemies of Poetr y'.

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• We have demythologized prematurely, that we've actually lost the vocabulary for discussing reality at its largest scales. The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Reality, Vocabulary, Opposites

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Thinking, Want, Actresses

  "Love Among the Artists". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1900.

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• Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.

  Rumi

  Reality, Love Is

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• Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.

  Jean Cocteau

  Running, Dog, Knowing

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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• Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

  Jean Cocteau

  Guarantees, Dogma, Martyr

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• Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Geometry, Subjects, Precise

  Letter to Louise Colet, 14 August 1853

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• Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

  Umberto Eco

  Feelings, Matter, Language

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• In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.

  Mary Caroline Richards

  Survival, World

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• I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Impulse, Primal

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• Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

  Robert Frost

  Sports, Football, Thinking

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• Poetry is a religion with no hope.

  Jean Cocteau

  No Hope

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• Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.

  Ezra Pound

  Fire, Iron, Criticism

  The Spirit of Romance ch. 9 (1910)

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• That is why I think, in defiance of Plato, that there is at once error and vulgarity in saying that poetry is a lie, except in the sense that Cocteau wrote one day: I am a lie who always tells the truth. The only poetry which lies purely and simply is academic, pseudo-classical, conceptually repetitive poetry, and it is not poetry.

  Jacques Maritain

  Plato, Lying, Thinking

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• A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret, you have to distort toward a symbolic construction of what happened, and as that distortion takes place, you begin to leave out and overemphasize and consequently deliver up life as a unity rather than as a chaos, and any such attempt, the more intense it is, the more poetic it becomes.

  Arthur Miller

  Order, Play, Unity

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• Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  World, Use, Illusion

  "Mahmoud Darwish" by Peter Clark, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2008.

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• Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

  Eddie Izzard

  Music, Notes

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• Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

  John Gabriel Stedman

  Art, Poetry, Excellence

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• Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful.

  Larry Towell

  Photography, First Love, Looks

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• Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

  Eileen Myles

  Opportunity, Giving, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it can break down something that polishes the filthy things with filthy things.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Discrimination, Breaking Down, Mainstream

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The body of poetry is nothing but energy, waves, rhythm.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Energy, Body, Wave

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Since the boundary of the world of poetry is fluid, the language in it is also fluid. Hence, the language that is outside of the poetry world, namely the language that is not the language of poetry, cannot go into the poetry world.

  Kim Hyesoon

  World, Language, Boundaries

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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